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Wisconsin is among the states have seen extreme heat in prisons and lack infrastructure for ventilation or cooling systems

While sweltering heat in prisons without air conditioning has long been an issue in the South, extreme heat waves worsened by climate change are expanding the problem into Northern states.

The inhumane conditions in such excessive heat could put the children at risk of heat stroke and other health issues.

Some advocates have argued that hot conditions in prisons constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

A woman formerly incarcerated at Western New Mexico Correctional Facility is suing New Mexico Corrections Department and Wexford Health Sources, a correctional health contractor,  for mistreating her, including unjustly placing her in solitary confinement. Irene Archer, 67, is suing with the help of New Mexico Jail and Prison Project. Archer alleges that she suffered injury […]

Boys, most of them Black, are being caged in sweltering cells in 133 heat with no AC. Also: managing bipolar illness with medication. Culturally relevant care for Latinos. And more.

You’d think the connection between the weather and climate change would be obvious. But you haven’t discussed the matter with Republicans in Congress.

Juveniles being housed at Louisiana State Penitentiary routinely spend about three days in solitary confinement when they arrive there, leaving their cells for only eight minutes a day to shower, according to federal court records.

“I would not dare to keep my dog in these conditions for fear of my dog dying,” an expert wrote in support of a class-action lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

Commissioner Leonard Bishop testified in support of a bill aimed at improving the quality of food in the D.C. Jail.